An Investigation of Turn-taking in a Second Language classroom interaction

This paper studies the organizationand management of classroom interaction in second language classroom as an important feature of a teaching and learning process. The collected data is from an A-TR3- Class 3 in an ESL classroom in the ESL center of Kentucky University, Kentucky, USA, 12/04/2013, which is taught by an ESL native speaker teacher called (Harry) and three international students who were studying English as pre-sessional course for their Academic studying courses (1 male and 2 females) in conversation class for intermediate level.The study deals with a particular aspect of social interaction which is the turn-taking in second language classroom of intermediate ESL classroom level at the University of Kentucky ESL language Centre, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The study tries to show that the turn-taking in classroom conversation is an important feature of the teaching-learning process.